suffusive purple light. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Being armed with a steady supply of funny lines imparts a suffusive confidence with wide-ranging effects on one's personality — what I imagine it must be like for a bald person suddenly to don a particularly convincing toupee. From Wordnik.com. [Funny Business] Reference
Update, 3/4: "Channeling the spirit of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Red in its suffusive evocation of longing and synchronicity," writes acquarello, "Xavier Giannoli's The Singer is an intelligently rendered, understatedly resonant, and refined portrait of the often bifurcating trajectories of existential and emotional intersections.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 3.] Reference
Update, 3 / 4: "Channeling the spirit of Red in its suffusive evocation of longing and synchronicity," writes Occasionally you see a movie that is divided against itself. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Meanwhile enters the expectant peer, Mr. Bult, an esteemed party man who, rather neutral in private life, had strong opinions concerning the districts of the Niger, was much at home also in Brazils, spoke with decision of affairs in the South Seas, was studious of his Parliamentary and itinerant speeches, and had the general solidity and suffusive pinkness of a healthy Briton on the central table-land of life. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
As he threw down his book, stretched his legs towards the embers in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable afterglow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connections with all the rest of our existence -- seems, as it were, to throw itself on its back after vigorous swimming and float with the repose of unexhausted strength -- Lydgate felt a triumphant delight in his studies, and something like pity for those less lucky men who were not of his profession. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
O'er its pale cheeks suffusive flushes fly. From Wordnik.com. [Poems (1828)] Reference
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